With the holiday season quickly arriving, this is a great time to Christmas shop on our Gift Shop for your sponsored child! We have have a full list of items in various categories that will be a blessing for a child to receive. Start shopping early, it will help us get the gifts and distribute them in a timely fashion. Thank for your love and support!
Our Kalaya students live in an isolated rural area and can spend hours every day walking to collect water. Not only does walking for water keep children out of school but the water often carries diseases that can make people sick. Access to clean water means education, income and health – especially for women and kids.
When a community gets water, women and girls get their lives back. Less time collecting water means more time in class. Clean water and proper toilets at school means teenage girls don’t have to stay home for a week out of every month.
The cost for a water tank and gutters installation, to collect rainwater is $1,300. Thank you for your support!
Constructed base for the water tank.
Completed classroom for gutter installation.
Many children in the rural areas of Africa study in roofless classrooms that have bare minimum school supplies. Children are often stuffed like chickens inside a coop with no space to move. We are working to provide adequate school and classroom supplies to children studying in unfavorable conditions. We can seat one child for $20 — two children at every desk for $40. We currently need 40 desks. You can also equip an entire classroom, including a teacher’s table and desk, for $800.
Children learn better when they are not hungry and are well nourished. On empty stomachs the become easily distracted ad have problems concentrating on their schoolwork. They become better students when their bodies are well nourished and healthy. The incentive of getting a meal also reduces absenteeism. Most significantly, performance improves and drop-out rates decrease. Provide a meal for a child for just $20 a month!
Grateful for the support in completing the Kalaya classroom. The building is done, roof is on, windows in, and the structure is painted on the inside and out. We are now accepting donations to fill each classroom with desks and chair, as well as, raising support for the installation of gutters and tanks for rainwater harvesting.
The side of the building where the gutters will be installed.
The base is ready for the water tank.
For just $50 per month you can help a young woman enroll in a one year vocational training course to learn a skill in Hairdressing or Tailoring that will help them break the cycle of poverty. Through our sponsorship program they now have a way to learn a skill and provide for their daily needs and their future.
The support we’ve received to make the Fannie Rountree Holloway Learning Centre a reality, we’re happy to see the children have this space at the school. We have a continued need for books for the Learning Centre. Will you support this work?
We are grateful for the contributions that have allowed us to construct a dining hall/kitchen for the Kalaya Training Center. We teach catering to our students, a fully functioning kitchen will help us with our catering program, as well as, allow us to properly serve hosts and visitors.
To finish the dining hall, we need to paint and purchases 5 tables and benches. Please help us finish what has been started and donate today!
